Letter: Prevent animal cruelty

By Jane Coogan, New Bern

Published: Monday, January 6, 2014 at 12:12 PM.

Christmas with its imagery of “the shepherd and his sheep” is the perfect time to write a petition letter to three key people in the USA to change laws in order to prevent animals’ deaths and cruelty practices by our government and leading institutions.

Dr. Paul B. Rothman, dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, leads one of only four medical schools to use live pigs in surgical training when their “state-of-the-art” Training Center, has in place, a most effective training system which doesn’t require the butchering of live animals.

Commissioner, Margaret Honburg, MD, of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, continues to allow thousands of animals to suffer and die when forced to “smoke” in contrived laboratories by tobacco companies; an unnecessary process today.

The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, The Honorable Jonathon Woodson MD, needs petitions seeking his strenuous urgings to the Department of Defense to end their use of live animals in combat training courses, immediately, given that new high-fidelity medical simulators, now in place, are realistic and of great variety and thereby effective.

When you feel strongly about practices of injustices petition letters need to be written by all who care to their political legislators and the heads of committees, administrations and corporations. A mound of letters can move mountains of abuses, greed and corruption.

Jane Coogan, New Bern

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Christmas with its imagery of “the shepherd and his sheep” is the perfect time to write a petition letter to three key people in the USA to change laws in order to prevent animals’ deaths and cruelty practices by our government and leading institutions.

Dr. Paul B. Rothman, dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, leads one of only four medical schools to use live pigs in surgical training when their “state-of-the-art” Training Center, has in place, a most effective training system which doesn’t require the butchering of live animals.

Commissioner, Margaret Honburg, MD, of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, continues to allow thousands of animals to suffer and die when forced to “smoke” in contrived laboratories by tobacco companies; an unnecessary process today.

The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, The Honorable Jonathon Woodson MD, needs petitions seeking his strenuous urgings to the Department of Defense to end their use of live animals in combat training courses, immediately, given that new high-fidelity medical simulators, now in place, are realistic and of great variety and thereby effective.

When you feel strongly about practices of injustices petition letters need to be written by all who care to their political legislators and the heads of committees, administrations and corporations. A mound of letters can move mountains of abuses, greed and corruption.